After reading more than a dozen weird legends about the "Ulan Star Fish Worship", Luo Binhan was finally freed from the shackles of the chains. At this time, Momolo and Zhou Ba were sitting at the table reading, but Jing Huang and Yaleriga were nowhere to be seen. Luo Binhan followed the chain and put the book back to its place, and found that both of them were standing in front of the bookshelf.
Jing Huang's appearance was much the same as before. It seemed that he was just too lazy to walk to the reading room, or he didn't like having his legs tied with chains. But Yaleriga's appearance attracted Luo Binhan's great attention: some kind of long, slender silver thread connected her to the book at a very fast speed, and another one was replaced every five or six minutes.
Luo Binhan observed for a while and couldn't help but admire her efficiency. It seems that she is not only proficient in traditional ethnic learning methods, but also has rich experience in making up lessons for super-syllabus content. In order not to disturb the two people's continued study, he quietly slipped away and ran to harass the owner of the big library.
At this time, the "King of the Sacred Peak of Wisdom" and Joel Farman were sitting together, playing some kind of card game that looked quite complicated. Popa happened to lose when Luo Binhan arrived. He threw away the unicorn card in his hand, lay down on the ground, slid his limbs, and sang a weird children's song that started with "The king chopped off the gambler's head."
Joel Farman pushed up his windshield and said calmly to Luo Binhan: "It's angry. That's normal."
Luo Binhan decided not to pursue the matter. He looked at Joel Fineman's metal rod and asked curiously: "You two have known each other for a long time?"
"The designer of Poppa created my village." Joel Farman said frankly. "That person always wanted to design a robot that is closer to the thinking of natural creatures. Poppa was his earliest idea in the wild zone. A purely mechanical product. , does not use any natural biological materials... In the end, someone else helped him make it, but he still likes Poppa very much and always asks them to take care of it when making new models."
Luo Binhan looked at Joel Farman again. Except for the steely color of her skin, she is almost indistinguishable from a real person, and the subtle changes in her expression are equally lifelike. Because she wore a pair of black windshields wherever she went, Luo Binhan didn't know the structure of her eyes.
"Are you a robot too?" he couldn't help but ask.
"Not entirely." Joel Farman said, "I had an accident when I was very young. Most of my body tissue was lost, and my torso and head were burned on a steel plate. If I were forcibly peeled off, I would die. My parents had no choice but to allow the emergency team to freeze me and then remove my brain. There was still some brain damage in the process, so they had no chance of waking me up until the shock Pa's designer student started trying to replace my broken parts with some electronic components. He told me that most of them were just memory and balance functions, but I always felt that my preferences had changed - I loved playing with dolls when I was a kid. I I’m not sure if it’s because of the surgery or if my brain was catalyzed to grow before the surgery.”
After saying that, she pulled out the metal stick and shook it easily. Luo Binhan avoided the stick wind and said: "So you are a tofu brain? Is it okay to eat so many steamed buns before?"
"Oh, that's okay. I have a backup high-performance digestive system," Joel Fineman replied. Luo Binhan was a little skeptical about whether this undermined the fairness of the competition, but he did not dare to challenge her. Joel Fineman then talked to him about her experience after the successful operation: she wandered around in the wild zone, looking for a way to survive that suited her, and found peace with a martial arts master who moved from the dream world. They studied together, traveled, took risks, and finally joined forces to break into the laboratory of the scholar who performed surgery on Joel Farman, ending his sinful life.
"What the hell?" Luo Binhan said.
"This is a very complicated story." Joel Fineman put away his stick calmly. "In short, after I left, he used a lot of human lives to do experiments. This is illegal in the league and the fantasy world, but No one can make the rules in the Wild Zone. He failed to keep his promise to his teacher, so I ended up destroying everything about him."
Luo Binhan shrank back in awe. He had seen Joel Fineman's skills in the steamed bun game, but he really didn't expect her to be a ranger.
"But I left his collection of rare cards." Joel Fineman added, "Do you want to see it?"
She pulled out a thin metal card from her inner breast pocket, on which was drawn a grotesque ring-shaped creature with twelve wings and six pairs of eyes.
Poppa began to pat his belly with his short hand, as if to express his admiration.
"Holy Winged Observer," it said, "This card has sixteen points!"
Luo Binhan felt that he was out of tune with the atmosphere here. He had to sneak away again to find some books that would interest him. To his surprise, the surface part of this large library did contain content that interested him, such as many related to the dream world. He also found a comic titled "Rainbow Unicorn vs. Stoneheart Hatcher."
Once or twice he made a mistake. He took a fancy to an album with a novel and suggestive title, and when he turned to the tenth page, he suddenly discovered a very familiar shark-like mermaid. He quickly closed the book, but once his eyes left the page, the countdown to the release of the chains would stop. In the end, he had to read the first nine pages over and over again until half an hour was finished.
This kind of reading life where he encountered surprises from time to time did make him feel a little interesting, but he finally got bored after most of the day. It happened that Marin couldn't stand the torment of his legs and feet being tied up with chains, so he decided to fool around with him.
They first got some food for themselves and Fina, and then walked around the wild peaks outside the library a few times. The climate of this planet is extremely cold, with little vegetation, and ice winds are constantly howling. Marin began to shiver before he could walk more than a hundred meters, so the two had no choice but to huddle behind the wind-sheltered rock wall and watch the mountain scenery.
They breathed the cold air and chatted. Marin asked: "Do you know what they are looking for?"
Luo Binhan shook his head. His intelligence on this matter is not much better than Marin's, and he is not sure whether Marin is really trustworthy.
Marin breathed out absentmindedly: "The few words the child said... I have never heard of 'The Stranger', but 'Lion-Hearted Royal Family'... This reminds me of a nursery rhyme, probably Heard it in Mencheng.”
Luo Binhan became interested and asked him to sing and listen. So Marin recalled something and then hummed: "There is a sharp peak at the top of the mountain, and there is a crack at the bottom of the mountain. Who crawled out of the cave? The dragon and the cannibal bees. The swarm flew into the lion group and smashed the lion's heart and head. A handful each of the head and the heart gave birth to the bee-lion and the lion-bee.”
"What the hell is this a nursery rhyme?" Luo Binhan questioned.
Marin's eyes were empty, and he sighed sadly: "Children are cruel, my friend. Innocent, but cruel - our world does not become bad simply because we grow up."
Luo Binhan was not going to argue with him, but continued to drag him for a walk on the rugged mountain road to exercise. They sometimes talked about the book they had just read, or speculated about what might be hidden in the underground part of the big library.
"What do you think the guy who built this place was thinking?" Luo Binhan wondered, "They just left such a big place to be guarded by a small person? Where are their own people?"
"I can understand why they did this." Marin said tremblingly. "Think about what kind of people they are: leaving their hometowns, abandoning their past status and reputation, and coming to such a remote place... You Do you really think they are all tired of fame and fortune? Come on! They are either cynical or have some dirty secrets - it doesn't matter, it depends on whether it is harmful to others. In short, of course they can't guard this kind of place by themselves, otherwise What if the Alliance secretly sent a search team here? Of course, I mean the ones who are still alive, but most of them are probably dead. That's what I just read in the local log."
Robin Han was stunned. He always thought that those who easily wandered into the interstellar world would always live a long life, at least living for tens of thousands of years would not be a problem.
"This is an emotional issue." Marin explained, "They think about so many things all day long, and in the end they think about themselves crazy! A group of people can't stand the mediocrity of the world, and they can't overthrow the entire alliance. Come, so I decided to sleep and wait for a better future... This is my guess. I don’t know what they thought specifically. Anyway, they found a planet with a very low temperature and built a super large icehouse in the core. , and then sealed himself inside. That place is quite a scenic spot. You can call it 'Frost Chrysalis', but in my opinion it is better to call it 'Suicide Star' - people still often go there to freeze themselves. It’s over!”
He looked at the gloomy sky for a while, and finally pointed to the distant horizon. Luo Binhan looked around and saw a lone star hanging there, as pale as snow particles.
